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French lawmakers to vote on new coronavirus measures

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France's prime minister defended the government's plans to close schools for at least three weeks and to ban domestic travel for a month to slow a resurgence of the coronavirus. Opposition parties were expected to boycott the vote. Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the leftist La France Insoumise party denounced it as a 'bad April Fools' prank. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman explains.

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